Silly Love Songs

My annual Valentine compilation is completed, Silly Love Songs Volume 4. This year, I decided to create a companion piece, Anti-Love Songs; good music I am crazy about that has a decidedly cynical cast. Playlists for both follow.

I have numerous sources for new music. Pandora online continues to bring me wondrous music I must own immediately. I subscribe to a great magazine called Paste that comes with a lovely sampler CD featuring 20 or so new songs every issue. In the past year, only one sampler has not made it into heavy rotation. I am an iTunes slut, visiting twice daily and always clicking through the "Listeners Also Bought" section to see what artists I didn't even know I loved. Movie or TV show soundtracks also offer inspiration - I believe my first TV show soundtrack purchase was thirtysomething, purchased in 1991. That was followed quickly by Northern Exposure. I've been obsessive about this for a long time, people. Holy crap, I'm old.

Silly Love Songs Vol. 4
I Only Have Eyes for You - Martina Topley-Bird
Words - Shawn Colvin
You Mean Everything To Me - Shawn Mullins
You Dance - eastmountainsouth
Love Is Free - Sheryl Crow
It Had Better Be Tonight - Michael Buble
Closer To You - Brandi Carlile
Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Fever - A Fine Frenzy
Crazy Love - U Michigan Amazin' Blue
Be Be Your Love - Rachael Yamagata
One Sure Thing - Toby Lightman
Always - Ben Taylor
Warm Whispers - Missy Higgins
Let My Love Open the Door - Sondre Lerche
To Know Love - Little Big Town
Many The Miles - Sara Bareilles
The Way I Feel - Matt Wertz

Anti-Love Songs
Die Alone - Ingrid Michaelson
Hearsay - Jonatha Brooke
Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Fury - Little Big Town
Thorn In My Side - Eurythmics
Peachy - Missy Higgins
Tempted - Squeeze
Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) - Alison Krauss & Robert Plant
I Should've Known Better - Nickel Creek
My Sweet Song - Toby Lightman
Hole In My Pocket - Sam Phillips
Who's Cryin' Now - Journey
Where Does the Good Go - Tegan and Sara
Broken - Tift Merritt
Ghost of Goodbye - Ford Turrell

And the previous volumes of Silly Love Songs:
Silly Love Songs Vol. 3 (2007)
Let There Be Love - Chris Botti with Michael Buble
La Vie en Rose - Tony Bennett & kd lang
Edge of Love - Mindy Smith
Echoes - Dar Williams
Fidelity - Regina Spektor
Charmed Life - Diana Krall
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Michael Buble
Lay All Your Love On Me - ABBA
I Found Love - The Free Design
It's De-Lovely - Robbie Williams
Fools in Love - Inara George
Colors - Amos Lee
Love is Strange - Everything But the Girl
True - Spandeaux Ballet
Now Three - Vienna Teng
When the Blue Hour Comes - Joan Osborne
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life - Sting with Chris Botti

Silly Love Songs Vol. 2 (2006)
I've Got A Crush On You - Michael Buble
Play Me - Neil Diamond
Give Your Mama One Smile - Madeleine Peyroux
The Things We Do for Love - 10CC
Still In Love - U of Rochester Vocal Point
Same in Any Language - I Nine
Love Me Like A Man - Diana Krall
Gimme Some Lovin' - The Spencer Davis Group
One Moment More - Mindy Smith
Like Lovers Do - Heather Nova
Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
Wear Your Love Like Heaven - Sara McLachlan
Those Sweet Words - Norah Jones
It Must Be Love - Rickie Lee Jones
Crazy Love - Aaron Neville
You Can't Hurry Love - Dixie Chicks
Found Love - Jimmy Reed
Wink and a Smile - Harry Connick, Jr.

Silly Love Songs
When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss
True Companion - Marc Cohn
Feels Like Home - Bonnie Raitt
I Know You By Heart - Eva Cassidy
Power of Two - Indigo Girls
God Only Knows - Manhattan Transfer
Someone to Watch Over Me - Linda Ronstadt
When You are Old - Martina McBride
Come Rain or Come Shine - Ray Charles
At Last - Etta James
Where You Lead - Carole King
Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
Silly Love Songs - Paul McCartney